When was the last time you walked barefoot in the grass? Walking barefoot and having contact with the earth is called grounding. Having direct contact to the earth’s electric energy and negative ions gives you a sense of well being and has calming effects. Walking on the beach is grounding, too. Negative ions from the earth will not pass through surfaces like pavement, so whenever you have the opportunity to walk on the beach or untreated grass, do it!Going barefoot also stretches your muscles and ligaments. ”A high proportion of the world’s population walks barefoot most of the time, and the average person who walks barefoot has much healthier feet than the average person who wears shoes,” says Dr. Paul W. Brand, Chief of the Rehabilitation Branch of the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital in Carville, La. and Professor of Surgery a Louisiana State University Medical School. He spent 18 years treating orthopedic problems at an orthopedic clinic in India, United Kingdom and Ethiopia. Based on these experiences, Dr. Brand suggests that Americans should walk barefoot for at least part of each day. Foot problems that are common from wearing poorly designed or improperly fitted shoes are bunions, corns, hammer toes, ingrown toenails, and athlete’s foot. These problems are not found in countries where most people go barefoot. In India, he saw no ankle fractures except those who wore shoes.
Dr. Brand says “The barefoot walker receives a continuous stream of information about the ground and about his own relationship to it, while a shod foot sleeps inside an unchanging environment. Sensations that are not used or listened to become decayed and atrophy. There is a sense of aliveness and joy which I experience walking barefoot that I never get in shoes.”
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